Improvement in albums



F. F. KULLRIGH.

Album.

Patented May 11', 1875.

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FRANZ FRIEDRICH KULLRIOH, OF BERLIN, PRUSSIA.

IMPROVEMENT iN ALBUMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,2 12, dated May 11,1875; application filed March 10, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANZ FRIEDRICH KULLRIOH, of Berlin, Prussia, haveinvented certain Improvements in Photograph-Albums, of which thefollowing is a specification:

The object of myinvention is to so construct the leaves ofphotograph-albums that card pictures can be introduced into their placesand removed therefrom more readily than in ordinary albums.

This object I attain in the manner which I will now proceed to describe,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is afront view, partly in section,ot' the leaf of a photograph-album madeaccording to my invention; Fig. 2, a sectional View on the line 1 2,drawn to an enlarged scale; and Fig. 3, a perspective View, illustratingmy invention.

The leaf is made, as usual, of three stripsnamely, the outer strips orand a, of stout paper, and the intermediate strip b, of pasteboard, theopenings in the outer strips being less in size than the opening in theintermediate strip, so that grooves are presented for the reception ofcard pictures.

Considerable difficulty is experienced in properly adjusting the cardsin, and especially in withdrawing them from, the leaves as constructedin the ordinarymanner, and the lower edgeof theleaf is disfigured by theslit through which the picture is in most cases inserted.

In some albums openings are made in the faces of the outer strips belowthe main opening for admitting the pictures, the introduction of whichis liable to tear the narrow strip of paper between the two openings. Inany case the autograph or title of the picture OOH]- monly printed nearthe lower edge of the card is hidden. In order to obviate theseobjections I enlarge the opening of each outer strip at the lower endas, this portion of the opening being in fact as Wide as that intheintermediate strip 12, so that the card picture can be introducedinto its place from either face of the leaf. A lip, n, of thin paper,attached to each of the outer strips cm at the lower edge of theopening, extends upward into the latter, the upper portions of the lipsoccupying a position between the two card pictures m m, Fig.2, so thateach picture on its withdrawal will slide freely over the said strip a.

It will be seen that when the card pictures are in their places theirtitles or autographs are always exposed.

I claim as my invention- The combination of the enlargements at in theopenings of the strips a and a of a photograph-album leaf, with strips n72 arranged to underlap the inserted pictures, as and for the purposespecified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANZ FRIEDRICH RULLRIOH.

Witnesses:

HERMANN KREISMANN, UARL LEHMANN.

